Milton and Homer: "Written to Aftertimes"

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 ONE “By Allusion Called”: Diachronic and Synchronic Intertextuality 13 TWO “Dire Example”: The War in Heaven as Admonitory Exemplum 55 THREE “A Fabric Wonderful”: The Marvelous and Verisimilar in Milton’s Christian Epic 75 FOUR “From the First”: Conceptions of Origins and Their Consequences 93 FIVE “Above th’Aonian Mount”: The Longinian Sublime in Paradise Lost 121 SIX “Instruct Me”: Institutional Considerations in Milton’s Evolving Literary Ambitions 137 CONCLUSION 155 Appendix: Milton’s Homer 165 Notes 171 Index 189 ...